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Letter: Life at the corners of personality

Published 27 July 2016

From Barry McGuinness

Emma Young tries to convince us that a degree of narcissism is a good thing. This is rather like arguing that because war is good for business, every business venture could do with a bit of war. Narcissists have a fixed delusion of superiority that blinds them to negative feedback.

Bath, UK

Issue no. 3084 published 30 July 2016

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